'Spiritual Growth' Tagged Posts (Page 2)
Stop – Listen – Examine
The following post is the first of three related posts written by Stu. All three will run consecutively for two days each. Please be sure to read all three. © Rui Vale de Sousa – Fotolia.com “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realise this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you fail to…
Our Faithful Shepherd
Every time I cried out in pain and confusion, God graciously touched me in some way, giving me what I needed to push on. He has taught me that His purpose for my life is based firstly on holiness and not happiness. Despite being unhappy many times during those two to three years, I am truly thankful and in awe of how good and gracious God was in teaching and developing me…
Questions for Bible Reading
Steve Farrar in his book “Point Man” says that reading the Bible is the equivalent of a soldier eating his rations. The Bible is our spiritual food, and without it we become weak and easy prey for the enemy.
****THANK-YOU FOR SUBSCRIBING****
Lite’n’easy Church
“Persuading people to visit and then remain at our churches in itself amounts to little. Some of the world’s largest churches numerically are among its most disgracefully distorted and heretical. The end goal is not ‘bums on pews’. The end goal is to see people transferred from darkness into the kingdom of God’s Son through the powerful work of his word and…
Are you ready to serve God?
We must ask ourselves why we are serving God and what is driving us. Is it our self esteem or self assurance, or is it our eagerness to thank God for all He has done for us in Christ?
Great Ministers Make a Great Church
The Bible measures a church’s maturity by the measure by which all God’s people are being equipped to serve, and are actually serving to make Jesus their shared treasure as a church, and whether he is filling everything in their lives.
Do You Earnestly Seek God?
God wants us to learn to be both persistent and patient when seeking Him. By doing both, our faith will develop, along with our wisdom and understanding of how God ticks and what He has for us (Proverbs 2:6). We are acting immaturely if we expect God to spoon feed us. He desires us to seek Him; to be clear, honest and specific with what we want… and then ask Him. God is…
We Are Called to be Holy, Not Happy
We need to stay clear of environments and activities that may have satisfied our human desires in the past, but clearly dishonour and stain what God has for us. We need to stand firm when this world tries to entice us towards ungodly activities and self-absorbed ways of thinking, no matter how much we are chastised and relentlessly persecuted! We need to be honest with…
Christianity is about experiencing biblical truth, not just knowing it
I had a good chat to a friend of mine, who is the lead pastor at his church, about his experience involving preparation to preach at church. One of his main points was that, from his experience, he spends more time in discerning appropriate application for the truth being taught than teaching the…
Book Review: A Call to Spiritual Reformation
This is a remarkable must read book for any Christian. If it does not challenge you to pray more biblically, then you need to read it again – this time with your eyes open.